Footage shows rivers of lava flowing across Kilauea volcano in ... Kilauea is a highly active shield volcano, estimated to be between 210,000 and 280,000 years old, having emerged from the sea ...

At the heart of this landscape lies the Medicine Lake Volcano, a massive dormant shield volcano ... to slow lava flows. One of the most iconic features, the Glass Mountain flow, is a 5.4-square ...

Mauna Loa is considered to be a shield volcano, meaning it was created by the flow of lava over time. Such volcanoes are not particularly tall (at least in the world of volcanoes). Instead ...

Mauna Loa in Hawaii is an example of a shield volcano. I’m in Italy visiting ... so I’ll need to watch out for things like lava flow. Lava is very hot molten or liquid rock, which reaches ...

Mauna Loa’s hotter, drier and more fluid magma allows the magma’s gas to escape and lava to flow down the side the volcano the way it is starting to do now. Mauna Loa is called a shield ...

At the leading edge of an ‘a‘ā flow ... volcano is “a broad shield-shaped volcano that is built up by successive, mostly effusive, eruptions of low-silica lava.” So next time you ...

That allows the magma's gas to escape and lava to flow down the side the volcano the way it is starting to do now. Mauna Loa is a shield volcano, named because the long, broad flanks built by ...

Nyamuragira is a dome-shaped shield volcano that stands up ... In January 1977, the volcano unleashed the fastest lava flow in recorded history, reaching speeds of up to 62 mph (100 km/h), which ...

That allows the magma’s gas to escape and lava to flow down the side the volcano the way it is starting to do now. Mauna Loa is a shield volcano, named because the long, broad flanks built by ...

HONOLULU (AP) — The ground is shaking and swelling at Mauna Loa, the largest active volcano ... lava flows down the side of their mountains when they erupt. Hawaii's volcanoes are called shield ...

The Axial Seamount is a shield volcano, similar to Mauna Loa in Hawaii ... "When Axial Seamount erupts, it'll look a lot like a Hawaiian lava flow eruption. It's not an explosive eruption ...